Hundreds of weather forecasters and other federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees on probationary status were fired Thursday, lawmakers and weather experts said.
Since the end of January, there has been a measles outbreak in West Texas and now New Mexico. This week, an unvaccinated child in Texas died of measles. According to news reports, the school-age child is from a largely Mennonite area of the state. Mennonites usually favor religious exemptions for vaccinations. While measles outbreaks are not new, […]
One of my favorite moments of Mitch McConnell’s tenure as Senate Republican leader came after Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) unveiled the Green New Deal. Recall that the initial plan peddled by Ocasio-Cortez was so astoundingly socialistic — bans on gas-powered cars, meat, air travel, and free housing and salaries for […]
In an agreement that shocked Hollywood, the rights to James Bond have gone to Amazon. 007 fans are freaking out, but Amazon may do Bond right. The key is to return to the source material: the books of Ian Flemming. In recent years, Daniel Craig has depicted James Bond as a killing machine, an orphan with […]
America is coalescing around nuclear energy as a cornerstone of the nation’s future power strategy. From the Trump administration’s pro-nuclear policies to recent legislation earning broad bipartisan support, for the first time in decades, there’s a shared commitment to expanding nuclear capacity to meet growing energy demands and environmental goals. But if the U.S. is […]